...and grills, and rings and anything generally blinged-out in diamonds:
Welcome to Pop Culture Week! While you can always find us waxing poetic about the hefty overlap between fashion and pop culture, we're dedicating the next five days to the subject of our favorite music, movies, TV, celebrities, books and theater, and how that all intersects with the fashion industry.
Jacob the JewelerYou know Jacob Arabo through decades of lyrical name drops, album cover shots and public appearances from literally all the greats: Jay Z, Nas, Biggie, Ghostface, Missy, Usher and Puff Daddy, to name just a few. Arabo emigrated from Uzbekistan to New York with his family in 1979 at age 14, dropping out of school at 16 to take a six-month jewelry course and immediately taking up work in Manhattan's Diamond District.
Ben Baller5Gallery5 ImagesIf anyone can challenge the name recognition of Jacob the Jeweler, it's Ben Baller . The Los Angeles native worked as a producer with Dr. Dre for over a decade before taking up the family biz — jewelry. After a dozen years crafting custom pieces for all the top artists, Yang announced his retirement in October of last year, candidly explaining, "I have lost the passion I once had for making/selling jewelry." No one was having it.
He's especially skilled at creating watches so blindingly blinged out you'd probably need to pull out your iPhone to actually see the time. Avianne has also created some of the most iconic self-referential pendant necklaces in recent memory, including Quavo's "Ratatouille" piece, which renders in countless diamonds an image of the Migos member in a chef's hat holding a rat reminiscent of the rodent in Disney's 2007 animated film of the same name.
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